Omg, Case is continuing to find new forms of torture for me.....I mean it in a kind caring way. For the non-runners/gym goers on the left is a bosu ball. It can be used for different types of torture (much like the box I mentioned in my last post). For some months now I have been using it to do push ups - you turn it over so it has the ball side down and them hold the sides and go for it. New world, no more girl pushups, it's all boy push ups from now on. One exercise I've done from the beginning is the plank. Put your feet on the top of the ball, straighten your body into a pushup or rest on your elbows, hold your stomach muscles in and count the minutes! Case has variations on this now too. Go into the plank and he adds a 20/30 or 40 pound weight to my back, depending on how he feels - now that has you focused on holding the plank so the darn weight doesn't slip off. One of my favs is he turns the ball over and I stand/balance on it, he hands me a weight bar and I have to crouch and stand up, over and over and over again. It's not easy but that one is really good for the stabalizer muscles in my ankles i.e. reduces the risk of injury. When I first started I could hardly balance on the ball, let alone hold a weight - Case told me I'd get good at it and he was right. Getting good with the bosu has been one of those deeply satisfying things where you see improvement relatively quickly - now that appeals to me.
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